Hi,recently I did an upgrade of my old computer (ASUS SP97-V) tothe kernel-2.4.7.

Problem: My system was crashing even when I load the module ide-disk.oSolution: Because of the broken hardware (some UDMA problems with an non UDMA-Cabel to the drive) the linux kernel hangs during ide_dma_check. Even if UDMA is disabeld in the bios, the kernel detect this drive as an udma drive. And this is wrong!! My solution was simply to comment out the ide_dma_check in ide.c. You can find this patch as attachment.